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...inexpensive roots. Within two Victorian houses, students do all their own cooking, cleaning, and decision-making. The Co-op is set up on a points system, so that residents must fulfill a certain amount of points every two weeks by signing up to do chores like preparing soup and salad for the night’s dinner, washing dishes, and cleaning the bathrooms. Vegetarian dinner is served at 6:30 nightly, but the kitchen is always open for a quick sandwich or snack. Decisions to order produce or buy a new appliance are all made cooperatively. In part because...
...GREEN OLIVE: Attached to a boutique resort, this tranquil and warm dining room, tel: (66-77) 230 222, serves up some of the island's best pasta dishes. That's no surprise when you discover that Italian chef Andrea Fiorentin has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Italy. Seafood soup with saffron is another house signature. RICE: This delightful venue, tel: (66-77) 231 934, is accessed by a small bridge over a pond, bestowing a sense of occasion that is matched by the Italian cuisine. Chef Luca Mancini worked at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Bologna, Italy...
...thing is the menu's achingly earnest foreword-cum-manifesto: "We strive to raise awareness of a more sustainable food future ..." But that's quickly forgiven once the consistently fine food is on the table. And all the preachiness is totally forgotten by dessert. The heavenly sweets - hot chocolate soup, a "conversation" of apple tarts and sorbet - are listed on the menu under the utterly appropriate heading "Encore." That's exactly what you'll be cheering after a couple of hours in the Dressing Room...
...take quiet to mean boring; Baros is water-sports nirvana. You could easily spend every waking moment in your swimsuit, fishing and sailing, scuba diving and snorkeling. Sepp Zedelmayer, the dive-school owner and a 26-year Baros veteran, says his favorite dive site is like "fish soup." He's not exaggerating. During one dive, I found myself pleasantly disoriented by seemingly thousands of shimmering yellowfin fusiliers swishing past me. The marine life is abundant, from spaceshiplike manta rays to the venomous yet showy lionfish. And some of what swims underwater also pleases when it lands on your plate. Aussie...
...more pertinently, what about the brands and companies that are using studies like those discussed in “Mindless Eating” to further their own aims? Such questions are pushed aside by the more accessible “Power of Three Checklist” and quizzes showing soup-personality correlations. Wansink never makes any pretensions to discussing the greater ideas and problems suggested by the research, but by the end of the book you wish...